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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I was responding directly to something the person said, continuing their discussion: > The maniacal blaming for every problem. The incessant injection of Trump and secondarily politics into every conversation and every facet of life. Thi
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Here you go. https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-ti...
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
For me, o1 but not 4o could solve the modified problem when told it’s solving a logic problem. Having to give explicit framing reminds me of tutoring children and trying to teach them about abstract problems — some really struggle with the
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
At least the one near me — and it’s only $100/yr. https://lib.uw.edu/services/borrow/card/fee/
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Perhaps it’s changed, but my experience is that most information just isn’t available online. Eg, UW had microfiche and book collections of many periodicals going back to the 1800s, which I haven’t seen a digitized version of. By contrast,
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> I don’t think they were any position to overthrow the government though. One group used weapons to seize an area for multiple days, including acts of murder to defend their ill-gotten territory; one didn’t. Neither made an attempt to “
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
They attacked the White House and forced the president to flee to a bunker on 5/29 — as referenced in my original comment. Note how that’s called a “protest” and not “insurrection”. (I’d say riot, but protest is closer to the truth tha
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I phrased that poorly: I understand how WIV could have caused a pandemic, but I don’t understand the other direction — how WIV doing gain-of-function would help the situation in which there was a zoonotic origin, eg at the wet market. The
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
It can both be the case that old methods have risks and new methods have greater risks, eg, underestimating mRNA distribution in the body, leading to mRNA replication in heart tissue, and higher than expect dangerous side-effects. In genera
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I’ve seen no compelling evidence gain of function has benefited us in any pandemic — or even a theoretical justification. How, precisely, do you believe that gain of function will benefit us the next pandemic? Edit: Swap “aid” to “benefit u
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
This depends on who the DDOS was targeting, otherwise the DDOS was legitimized by this logic (targeting bad people) and this becomes bad again (harming good people to aid bad people). Of course, that was never considered nor was collateral
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You wrote multiple paragraphs denigrating his point in response to criticism not even specifically addressed at you — but which nevertheless triggered your insecurities. Do you think that behavior rebuts his point?
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> are more than weird, they're absurd They’re a consequence of subsets being more complicated to talk about than the set itself. Real numbers are weird compared to naturals because the indescribable ones match to subsets with infini
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> What axiom lets either of us do an infinite number of steps and say we're finished? The same one that says we can build the naturals from successors — without that, we don’t have all of the naturals. As I’ve been saying repeatedly
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You don’t have to do anything but assume such a bijection does exist, as in my comment: its existence leads to a contradiction in the presence of limits — just like I showed. But without that same limiting to build sets, you can’t construct
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
But that schema can be applied to your new set, as well — to create yet more counter examples. Your method didn’t exhaust the real numbers outside the original list. You merely added one of them. For any listable subset of the real numbers,
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I was curious, so I googled around a bit — please excuse the weird units. - about 0.375kWh to produce 1kg of LN2 - about 0.056kWh to boil 1kg of LN2 So you get 15% efficiency; though you have “waste cold” in the exhaust you could recover if
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
They’re not finitely describable — for any member of that set, no matter how many digits you articulate, you’ve named a rational number. The same is true even for numbers that have finite predicates defining them — because there’s only meas
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> state's political leadership The political leadership of the US is elected; by definition, any network of power which isn’t beholden to that is “deep state”.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
No — “deep state” can refer to the permanent bureaucracy operating according to their own agenda, in coordination with NGOs, etc. That’s the “unauthorized networks of power” which run independently of democratic control, eg by coordinating
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You’re making a straw man of their argument. They understand what the bureaucrats purported to do, but don’t believe that government bureaucrats can manage a complex system and that better outcomes are obtained by allowing individuals to op
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You can and people do. It’s just a lot more expensive and labor intensive to apply.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Why not hire US consultants to get from starting to mid-sized? I’m curious, if you think the issue is cultural.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Survival amid viewer shifts away from traditional broadcasts. The people who they sell the rights to are less valuable partners, so AO feels comfortable making them a less valuable offer while pursuing other audiences.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> If you slice a 3d space through a hypersphere in 4d space, do you get a normal sphere? Probably. Yep — and this will generally be the case, as the equation looks like: x1^2 + x2^2 + … + xn^2 = r^2. If you fix one dimension, you have a
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Your younger self doesn’t have to be a future state of your present self, you just have to induce it, eg, being your own father or grandfather. Your younger self doesn’t have to be in your future if you allow some overlap (father) or short
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
The scales get you: You can’t simulate a molecule at accurate quark/gluon resolution. The equations aren’t all that complex, but in practice you have to approximate to model the different levels, eg https://www.youtube.com&#
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Yep. At my university, after the usual calculus/diff eq/lin alg sequence everyone in STEM takes, we had “intro to advanced mathematics” that was proof based, taught in the spring, and a pre-req for everything higher level (abstrac
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
The struck engine was still spinning — you can see the visual distortion from its thrust reverser being deployed while on the runway.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Conversely, those are also the least likely to be solved by random trial and error. Those people largely just die, no matter what you do — that’s what makes it a “highest-grade nasty”.

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